Rest In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Lee Dorman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/arts/music/lee-dorman-bass-guitarist-for-iron-butterfly-dies-at-70.html?_r=0
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 23 December 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.noise11.com/news/legendary-funk-diva-marva-whitney-passes-away-20121224
Marva Whitney, one of the greats of funk and soul and the woman whom James Brown called “Soul Sister #1″, passed away last night (December 23, 2012). She was 68.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 December 2012 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/arts/music/jimmy-mccracklin-rb-singer-and-songwriter-dies-at-91.html?ref=music&gwh=91AD3338CFE178EEE2E227B4A6357A56
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 December 2012 08:30 (eleven years ago) link
aw shit marva no
― You're gonna need a fruit kebab. Trust. (stevie), Monday, 24 December 2012 10:39 (eleven years ago) link
Jack Klugman:(
― Zweitgeist (doo dah), Monday, 24 December 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
Quincy.M.E :(
A little more of my youth has just faded.
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
last of the Angry Men
now he can play more Challenge Yahtzee with Tony Randall
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
Forgot about challenge Yahtzee. RIP, Jack. I don't like pits pits pits in my juice juice juice either.
― Rumba de Schmillsson (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
Charles Durning
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-mew-charles-durning-dies-20121225,0,7403321.story
(Santa Claus in 4 different movies)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
:-(
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
Was particularly good in Tootsie. RIP
― Rastaquouere Vibration (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Pappy ODaniel and Waring Hudsucker
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
and Sgt. Moretti :(
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
Weird that for all the Tootsies and Dog Day Afternoons he was in, my immediately association with him is always as Holly Hunter's father in Home From The Holidays (which is underrated, and which it's been far too long since I've watched).
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
i always think of him in O Brother Where Art Thou
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
search: Twilight's Last Gleaming, True Confessions
Saw him as the ex-prez in The Best Man on Broadway in 2000. He was very heavy but the line readings were gossamer.
NYT:
Mr. Durning was also remembered for his combat service, which he avoided discussing publicly until later in life. He spoke at memorial ceremonies in Washington, and in 2008 France awarded him the National Order of the Legion of Honor.
In the Parade interview, he recalled the hand-to-hand combat. “I was crossing a field somewhere in Belgium,” he said. “A German soldier ran toward me carrying a bayonet. He couldn’t have been more than 14 or 15. I didn’t see a soldier. I saw a boy. Even though he was coming at me, I couldn’t shoot.”
They grappled, he recounted later — he was stabbed seven or eight times — until finally he grasped a rock and made it a weapon. After killing the youth, he said, he held him in his arms and wept.
Mr. Durning said the memories never left him, even when performing, even when he became, however briefly, someone else.
“There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don’t want anyone to know about,” he told Parade. “There’s terror and repulsion in us, the terrible spot that we don’t talk about. That place that no one knows about — horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.”
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
For whatever reason, him yelling "I don't give a fuck!" in Sharkey's Machine has always been one of my favorite lines in a film. RIP.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
Two consecutive best supporting actress noms in the early eighties (never saw Best Little Whorehouse in Texas).
He plays this beautifully:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvMKDVUoTqc
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfNMsVdRmeU
(not the scene i was hoping to find, but a good, and appropriate, one)
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
"Languishing!! Goddamn campaign is languishing!!"
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
"Eckard! You may as well start draftin' my concession speech right now.""OK Pappy.""I'm just makin' a point, ya stupid sonovabitch! Gimme back my hat!""Pappy just makin' a point.""Shut up!!"
(it's a lot funnier when you see it)
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
love this guy, RIP
― banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
My favourite moment of his is right at the end of Alfred's first clip above: where he fake-punches Hoffman out of exasperation/affection after Hoffman confesses. It's like Keaton fake-strangling his girl in The General.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
Let's all dance a little sidestep in his honor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG75FJkjr8
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/v/RiKy3ktxw6M
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Someday I will figure out how to embed videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiKy3ktxw6M
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
sigh
Fontella Bass
― WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
Oh no you didn't, WmC .
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't do it! It was a heart attack!
― WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
I think it was the image posted here that did it: "Rescue Me" (Denis Leary firefighter show on FX) - anyone?
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
seeing on twitter that norman schwarzkopf is dead
― curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Fontella Bass, Stormin Norman, not quite so much, but still.
― Alba, Friday, 28 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
Jean Harris, Scarsdale diet doc killer.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 December 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
tony greig
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 29 December 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Former Indy 500 driver, wannabe actor, and hard-luck case Salt Walther. Perhaps most remembered for this crash in 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-IsOuo5be8
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 December 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.tmz.com/2007/12/04/rapper-pimp-c-found-dead-in-hollywood-hotel-room/
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Sunday, 30 December 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
aw shit of course that happened five years ago.
Not going to be missed: Sir Irvine Patnick.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 31 December 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
Ray Collins, singer with the Mothers
― nickn, Thursday, 3 January 2013 06:22 (eleven years ago) link
need new thread
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
Rolling Obituary Thread 2013.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago) link